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... critical edition , the first to have a variorum edition , and the first to be made the subject of a detailed critical study . Is it any wonder that when Jacob Tonson , a leading printer of the day , was asked " what poem he ever got the ...
... critical edition , the first to have a variorum edition , and the first to be made the subject of a detailed critical study . Is it any wonder that when Jacob Tonson , a leading printer of the day , was asked " what poem he ever got the ...
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... critical Swift , though " not over fond of " The Seasons " because . nothing is doing , " did not mention its turgidity . ' Many , to be sure , who ap- proved of Thomson's general practice censured some of his expres- sions or thought ...
... critical Swift , though " not over fond of " The Seasons " because . nothing is doing , " did not mention its turgidity . ' Many , to be sure , who ap- proved of Thomson's general practice censured some of his expres- sions or thought ...
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... critical readers.1 Pope sneered at his own early work , in which " pure Description held the place of Sense , " and , like many of his contemporaries , seems to have regarded pictures of the country as purely decorative , for he thought ...
... critical readers.1 Pope sneered at his own early work , in which " pure Description held the place of Sense , " and , like many of his contemporaries , seems to have regarded pictures of the country as purely decorative , for he thought ...
Contents
MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
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